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Newswires: Greece

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5600 on hunger strike in prisons in Greece: International call for action

from various sources, updated 18 November 2008: via Antiauthoritarian Movement (Assembly of Thessaloniki): "We call for international actions in solidarity to the thousands of prisoners who struggle inside the greek prisons. 21 prisons in turmoil, 5600 prisoners on hunger strike, another 3000 on abstention from prison meals, 16 demands to be fulfilled and an International Call to Action. more

Excerpts from "The Insurrection to Come"

from anarchistnews, updated 18 November 2008: This translation is an excerpt from a radical new book that just appeared in France by the Invisible Committee (Comite Invisible). The book discusses the local appropriation of power by the people, the physical blocking of the economy, and the elimination of the police force as practical routes toward insurrection. more

France: Seven charged over TGV rail sabotage

Anarchists in France arrested for alleged attacks on TGV train lines

from various sources, updated 18 November 2008: A French judge has slapped terrorism charges on seven people suspected of sabotaging France's rail network, including the 34-year-old alleged ringleader of the self-styled "invisible cell". If found guilty of heading a terrorist organisation, Julien Coupat, a former sociology student, faces up to 20 years in jail. more

VIDEO: Clashes in Vichy, against racist immigration control

from various sources, updated 15 November 2008: Protesters were demonstrating against France's minister of immigration, integration and national identity Brice Hortefeux's tough stance on expelling illegal immigrants back to their homelands. Anarchists torched cars and smashed shop windows, as armed police were pelted with rocks and other missiles. more

Reflections on the 2008 Class War bonfire night in London Fields, Hackney

London Class War Bonfire night 2008: pigs

Updated 11 November 2008: OK, the London Fields Class War bonfire didn't exactly happen this year. Sure, there were 200 people or so, both in the park and in the nearby pub. And lots of cops. With cameras and bad attitudes... Someone lets of a real piffle of a firework (pheep, pffff, zzzssstt) and a bunch of pigs go for the miscreant (allegedly) responsible like she'd mortared Downing Street. A full and frank exchange of views took place, including the words "Easy, tiger", "Fucking calm down" and "For fuck's sake, its fireworks night".  more

NZers demand freedom for Aboriginal facing 'life' while killer cop walks free

from imc-nz, updated 11 November 2008: About twenty protesters braved gale force winds and rain to gather outside the Australian High Commission in Wellington today to demand the immediate release of Palm Island Aboriginal councilor, Lex Wotton. The accused man is facing a life sentence for 'rioting with destruction' following the announcement of the brutal killing of an Aboriginal man, in police custody in 2004. more

Gelmini Law voted in, Italy, student revolt spreads

from various sources, 30 October 2008: An hour ago the Gelmini decree was voted by the Senate into law. Immediately there was a big reaction from students across Italy. In Rome they also had to confront fascist student organizations. In Milano, an unauthorized demo of 2000 highschool students traversed the city center where and was charged at several points by riot cops.  more

Shallow graves in unfamiliar terrain (Revolutionary Potentials)

from email, 29 October 2008: "We are conscious of the need for a social revolution. Everywhere the degradation seems to deepen as our distance from our relation to it widens. We are conscious of the need to engage seriously in a war of appropriation against a society of dispossession, withdrawal, and exhaustion. As with any goal of social transformation, the process of anarchist revolution requires an understanding of the social context we live in, the barriers against class solidarity, and our strategy for getting what we want..." more

Newswires: Credit crisis

Articles filtered from our aggregated external news sources, searching for the keywords: Bank, recession, LLoyds, TSB, Treasury, RBS, Bradford & Bingley, HBOS, Lehrman, Paulson, IMF, AIC, Enron, FSA, Suisse, Citigroup... more

Newswires: Seattle 1999

In November 1999 the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Seattle, USA, was confronted by tens of thousands of people. Black blocs took to the streets (and windows) as the the city police fired all the gas they had. Hundreds were gassed, pepper sprayed, injured or arrested. But thousands more were radicalised and continue the struggle today.
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Copenhagen: Christiania fires it up

from modkraft, 30 October 2008: After the police evicted a house in Christiania in the morning, Copenhagen saw yet another day of actions and night of rioting. For both police and activists this was a test of strengths and a taste of things to come as legal proceedings are getting more and more troublesome for the inhabitants of Christiania. more

Tacoma: Wells Fargo attacked in solidarity with detainees

from various sources, 29 October 2009: During the morning of October the Twenty Fifth, a group of people smashed out five of the six windows of a Wells Fargo Home Mortgage office in Tacoma, Washington. The office was located in Old Town Tacoma, one of the city's wealthiest areas. This act was done in solidarity with the 13 people recently detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Shelton, WA and the people recently detained in San Francisco, CA. more

Italian police HQ bombed, anarchist comrades arrested

from abc-italy, 25 October 2008: In the night of 19 to 20 of October, two bombs exploded in front of the headquarters of the communal police of Parma (Italy). The damage is limited, not one of the cops who were inside got hurt. This section of the communal police was denounced lately by a student from Ghana, Emmanuel Bonsu, who made public how he was beaten and tortured. Lately, more and more denounces of migrants who are being tortured in the police stations are made public. more

Honouring an anarchist: Fury as Siege of Sidney Street killer gets tower block plaque

Peter the Painter

from friends, 8 October 2008: from the Daily Maily (uk fash-conservative newspaper, but fuck, its a great story...) ++++ He is a sinister figure from the seething streets of the East End of London in the volatile years before the First World War.

Peter Piaktow, known as Peter the Painter, was the leader of an anarchist gang responsible for the murder of three policemen which was cornered at the Siege of Sidney Street.

Nearly a century may have passed but the emotions caused by the Siege of Sidney Street have risen again over two commemorative plaques erected for Piaktow. more

Repost: Are you ready for social war?

text from email, posted 8 October 2008: The ruling elite are in a crisis right now - brought on by their very own system of capitalism. What began several years ago during the housing boom as a way to make huge amounts of money through faulty sub-prime loans, has brought the whole system to the verge of collapse... more

Dissecting riot culture in Quebec

Fuck the police - Montreal-style, 2008

from email, 8 October 2008: Anarchist academic Marc-André Cyr examines Quebec’s fondness for smashing stuff: Whether motivated by political ideology, social grievances or simply drunken stupidity, torching cars and trashing local businesses has long been something of a tradition in Quebec... This year alone has witnessed a (perhaps premature) hockey riot, the annual tradition of the anti-police brutality fracas and the civil unrest unleashed by the killing of Freddy Villanueva by Montreal police — including another incident this past weekend.  more

Mutiny #30 - (The threat of) mass direct action gets the goods

from email, 30 September 2008: When people first started talking about shutting down the APDSE (Asia Pacific Defence and Security Exhibition), which was to be held in Adelaide from November 11, it seemed like an almost impossible task. Now they've announced that they've called it off! And they called it off because of fears of protests from `feral anarchists', including `the ultra-militant protest group Mutiny.' It's obvious that this victory really had very little to do with us.  more

8th anniversary: Arbitrary detention and police ill-treatment following 26 September 2000 IMF/World Bank protests in Prague

Smoking, Prague

updated 30 September 2008: Amnesty International report on the September 2000 mass actions against the IMF/World Bank meeting in Prague, 2000. ++++ Between 26 and 28 September 2000, in Prague, over 850 people were detained following street protests against the annual meeting of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  more

Barcelona anti-capitalist publically robs 492,000 euros from banks

from email, 21 September 2008: Enric Duran, long involved with anti-capitalist struggles in Barcelona, has publically announced his robbery of 492,000 euros from 39 different banks, and gone into hiding. Enric gained the money through fraudulent loans. Most of the money has gone towards funding anti-capitalist social movements and paying for a massive publication, though he kept a small portion to aid his flight.  more

RNC: Talking smack to the Pigs

from infoshop, 16 September 2008: Let's be honest: the RNC was kinda rough for both of us. Sure, we each had our shining moments — captured for posterity on the local network news — but at the end of the day, neither of us really got what we wanted. more

Will the real "Battle in Seattle" please stand up?

from infoshop, 16 September 2008: On September 19, Battle in Seattle, the new fictionalized movie about the mass direct action shutdown of and week-long street resistance to the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999, will open in theaters across the US. Some global justice and anti-capitalist activists will intervene on the opening day of the movie to urge moviegoers to get the real story and make some history themselves. more

Black September in Chile: barricades in honour of Claudia Lopez

from email, 13 September 2008: 10 years ago on September 11th, Claudia Lopez a woman, student and anarchist dancer was killed by the police during a protest commemorating the coup of 1973. Under the slogan of Black September the youth combatants fight in her name, and in the name of all those killed under democracy, against the bastards who killed them, making sure that the world remembers that we are living in a war. - On September 2nd 2008 combative youth took the streets to stop traffic on Jorge Alessandri Avenue out side of the UMCE University. They fought police for hours with rocks and molotov cocktails more

VIDEO: Class War Bonfire Night, Hackney London Fields, 5 November 2008

from Class War, via email, updated 5 November 2008: A very funny video from London Class War advertising their (almost) annual London Guy Fawkes Night illegal bonfire, beer and explosives evening. All invited to the night: London Fields, Hackney. 7pm Wednesday 5th November 2008: Bring effigies, booze and fireworks. Also estate agents signs for kindling. This years "theme" is Burn A Politician. more

International Anarchist Conspiracy Communique #8 (Being A Call For The Continuance Of The Battle)

from IAC, 4 September 2008: We are all just emerging from the shadows, however. The events of September the First were just another of the glimpses of light that has recently been breaking the darkness all around us. It marks our return to the outside world. All preparations for this battle were done openly and defiantly. Those readying the counter-curses were brave and bold and filled with love every step of the way. more

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